Wales at the Commonwealth Games

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Wales will contest the 9th/10th playoff after a 74-28 loss to Jamaica in their final pool match.

This was their fourth defeat of the Commonwealth Games with just a solitary win against Trinidad and Tobago.

It was a competitive opening quarter from the Welsh Feathers who trailed by just two goals at the first break.

But Jamaica showed why they are the 2022 silver medallists as a clinical second quarter from the Sunshine Girls saw them pull away.

Wales tried to compensate by making several changes, with captain Bethan Dyke even dropping to the bench. But the onslaught from Jamaica continued and they extended their lead to 36-18 at half time.

Despite some positive moments for Wales in the third and fourth quarters, Jamaica proved too strong, converting attacks ruthlessly to seal victory and a place in the semi-finals.

It's been a disappointing competition for Wales who will finish at least one place lower than four years ago, after finishing eighth in Birmingham in 2022.

They will need to dust themselves off quickly ahead of tomorrow morning's classification match with Tonga at 11:00 BST.

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Weightlifter James Wales missed out on a podium spot, finishing fourth in the men's 110+kg event.

The serving Royal Navy commissioned officer managed 145kg with his second attempt in the snatch, before failing to lift 150kg.

Roared on by the crowd in the arena after failing with his first two attempts, Wales successfully lifted a Welsh record 191kg in the clean and jerk to avoid a 'did not finish'.

This left him with a total of 336kg, 20kg short of England's Andrew Griffiths who went on to win a bronze medal.

New Zealand's David Liti's score of 389kg was just enough to claim gold, with Singh Lovepreet just one kilo behind in silver.

This was the final event of the weightlifting programme at these Games.

Team Wales finish with one medal in the sport, thanks to Laura Hughes' bronze in the women's 77kg.

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Wales have won Commonwealth Games gold in the women's team sprint at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome by beating England in the final.

The Welsh trio of Emma Finucane, Rhian Edmunds and Lowri Thomas defeated Katy Marchant, Sophia Capewell and Rhianna Parris-Smith in a new Commonwealth Games record time of 46.760s.

Wales had set the fastest time in qualifying to set up the gold medal race and delivered the ultimate upgrade on the bronze medal the same trio won in Birmingham in 2022.

It was the 18th medal for Team Wales with three gold, six silver and nine bronze.

This was the third medal for Wales on the opening night of track cycling after silver for Para-cyclist James Ball and his guide Matt Rotherham and bronze for the women's team pursuit.

Unfortunately the men's trio of Lewis Oliva, Steffan Lloyd and Ioan Hepburn could not compete in the team sprint event bronze medal race.

Hepburn made the start line but pulled out after having medical advice.

Trinidad and Tobago were awarded the bronze medal.

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Welsh cyclist Ciara Oliva celebrated coming out of retirement as part of the team pursuit bronze-medal winning squad in Glasgow.

Oliva, 36, rode with Megan Barker, Jessica Roberts, Anna Morris at her third Games and finished on the podium by beating England in the race for third place.

Wales had qualified third fastest in a time in the morning session and then defeated England's Josie Knight, Grace Lister, Madelaine Leach and Abigail Miller in the afternoon programme. That success came just minutes after Wales Para-cyclist James Ball claimed a silver.

Oliva had initially finished competitive cycling after the 2018 Gold Coast games following a career where she won World and European Championship medals and was the unused Team GB rider at the 2016 Olympics in the squad that won gold.

After having her three children with her cycling husband Lewis, both riders decided to return to the track for the Games in Glasgow.

"It means everything, the whole comeback was worthwhile and means so much to me and to my family," said Ciara.

"To be riding alongside these girls is the biggest honour, they're absolutely awesome, it's just amazing."

Lewis Oliva will compete in the men's bronze medal sprint race, alongside Steffan Lloyd and Ioan Hepburn, later this evening.

The men's team pursuit quartet of Rhys Britton, Rory Gravelle, William Roberts and William Salter just failed to reach the podium after losing the bronze medal race against New Zealand.

Wales now have 17 medals with two gold, six silver and nine bronze.

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Welsh Para-cyclist James Ball claimed silver in the Commonwealth Games men's tandem 1,000m time trial in Glasgow.

Ball, alongside his pilot Matt Rotherham, matched the silver he won in Birmingham four years ago with great rival Neil Fachie from Scotland taking the gold.

It was a third successive Commonwealth Games second place in this event for Ball.

"It is pretty special to equal to what we did in Birmingham four years ago," said Ball.

"We have to be proud of what we've done today. We gave it everything on the track and I was on the floor for 20 minutes afterwards."

Fachie had effectively come out of retirement for this event and now has six Commonwealth Games golds and one silver to his name.

Ball, from Ponthir, had won Wales' first medal and first gold medal in Birmingham four years ago.

He competes in tandem races as an athlete with a visual impairment and is a multiple world champion across the tandem sprint events, also winning a gold at the 2024 Paralympics in the tandem B kilo alongside his pilot Steffan Lloyd.

The rivalry between Fachie and Ball is long-standing. Fachie won gold in this event four years ago, while the results were reversed in the tandem sprint.

Fachie beat Ball to Paralympic gold in the delayed 2020 games that were held in 2021 in Tokyo. Rotherham was Fachie's pilot that day.

Ball and Rotherham will have a chance to defend their sprint title on Saturday.

Rotherham, who hails from Bolton, said: "I spent three days learning the Welsh national anthem and I'm gutted I didn't get to sing it today.

"Hopefully we will do on Saturday."

Wales now have 16 medals with two gold, six silver and eight bronze.

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Daniel Salmon and Ross Owen are still in medal contention in the men's pairs with a comeback, must-win victory over Guernsey.

Ian Merrien and Jason Greenslade took the lead with a 4-3 victory in the opening set.

After trailing 2-0 and 4-3 in the second, a superb shot from Owen in the fifth end gave Wales a 5-4 win in the second to keep them in the match.

Wales won the tense one-end tie-break to get back to winning ways.

The victory leaves them third in their six-team group with unbeaten leaders Malaysia their next opponents on Friday.

Meanwhile, Amy Williams continued her flawless start in the women's singles with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Mildred Mkandawire.

Williams tops her group and faces Isle of Man's Caroline Whitehead in the penultimate pool game on Friday.

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Wales women's sprint team set a new Commonwealth Games record in qualifying to set up a gold medal race against England this evening.

The team of Emma Finucane, Rhian Edmunds, Lowri Thomas finished fastest in qualifying in a breathtaking time of 46.972 seconds.

They will ride at 18:15 BST at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, with at least a silver medal guaranteed, an upgrade on the bronze the same trio won in Birmingham in 2022.

The men's trio of Lewis Oliva, Steffan Lloyd and Ioan Hepburn also qualified for the bronze final against Trinidad and Tobago at 18:20 BST.

They finished fourth fastest in qualifying with a time of 44.075 seconds.

Wales will race against England for bronze in the women's 4000m team pursuit at 16:36 BST as they qualified third fastest.

The team of Megan Barker, Jessica Roberts, Anna Morris and Ciara Oliva finished their heat in a time of 4:15.514, five seconds quicker than the Welsh quartet in Birmingham in 2022.

The men's team also qualified for the bronze race after they finished fourth fastest in a time of 3:55.552.

The team of Rory Gravelle, William Salter, Rhys Britton, William Roberts will take on New Zealand at 17:28 BST.

"Yeah it was alright, probably the fastest we've gone as a team so we can't really be angry with that," said Britton.

"I think we'd have liked to go faster and we probably can go faster but the main thing is we got into a medal ride-off.

"So I think we can be happy with that and hopefully bring a medal back to Wales."

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Wales managed to secure a gold, two silver and bronze on day six of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, so what does day seven hold in store?

We bid farewell to swimming where Wales claimed six of the official 15 medals so far, but the track cycling programme starts in the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome where the main hope of success will be.

Olympic champion Emma Finucane begins the first of her scheduled four events in the women’s team sprint alongside Rhian Edmunds and Lowri Thomas, with the men’s squad of Ioan Hepburn, Steffan Lloyd and Lewis Oliva also in action.

Both team pursuit squads will go for podium positions with the women’s squad of Megan Barker, Anna Morris, Ciara Oliva and Jess Roberts, especially, hoping to add to the medal tally.

Para-cyclist James Ball won Wales’ first gold in Birmingham four years ago and will be hoping for another medal.

He competes in tandem races as an athlete with a visual impairment and is a multiple world champion across the tandem sprint events, also winning a gold at the 2024 Paralympics in the tandem B kilo alongside his pilot Steffan Lloyd.

Today he will compete with Matthew Rotherham, his Commonwealth pilot of four years ago, in the men's tandem B 1000m time trial final.

Elsewhere Team Wales will compete in non-medal events, bowls, athletics, and netball, while weightlifter James Wales will complete the Wales campaign in that sport in Glasgow in the men's 110+kg final.

Athletics

12:05: Ava Lloyd and Melissa Courtney-Bryant, women's mile heats

12:45: Charlotte Henrich, women's 400m semi-finals

20:45: Justin Davies, men's 800m semi-finals

Bowls

11:20: Daniel Salmon and Ross Owen, men's pairs, Wales v Guernsey

19:15: Amy Williams, women's singles, v Mildred Mkandawire

Netball

19:00: Jamaica v Wales

Track cycling and Para-track cycling

10:15: Megan Barker, Anna Morris, Ciara Oliva and Jess Roberts, women's 4000m team pursuit qualifying (bronze final at 1636, gold final at 1643)

10:56: Rhys Britton, Rory Gravelle, Will Roberts and Will Salter, men's 4000m team pursuit qualifying (bronze final at 1728, gold final at 1735)

12:18: Emma Finucane, Lowri Thomas and Rhian Edmunds, women's team sprint qualifying (bronze final at 1810, gold final at 1815)

12:37: Ioan Hepburn, Steffan Lloyd and Lewis Oliva, men's team sprint qualifying (bronze final at 1820, gold final at 1825)

16:08: James Ball and Matthew Rotherham, men's tandem B 1000m time trial final

Weightlifting

18:30: James Wales, men's 110+kg final

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Wales suffered a third defeat of their campaign in a 65-37 loss against a dominant New Zealand.

The Silver Ferns raced to a 17-7 lead with goal shooter Martina Salmon scoring 15 goals from 15 shots in the opening quarter.

At half-time, Wales trailed 36-15 with goalkeeper Leah Middleton conceding nine penalties in the opening half.

Zoe Matthewman was brought on to make her 25th appearance for the Welsh Feathers for the third quarter alongside wing defence Poppy-Marie Tydeman and the changes had the desired effect.

Willed on by the crowd, Wales were resurgent in third quarter with Georgia Rowe scoring four unanswered goals.

The Kiwi side then showed their class finishing the quarter with a 51-25 scoreline.

Again Wales improved in the fourth quarter, but the two-time gold medallists were too strong.

The game ended on a worrying note as New Zealand goalkeeper Catherine Hall left the court on a wheelchair having appeared to twist her knee.

Wales sit fifth in their group and will face Jamaica in their final pool game on Thursday.

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Rosie Eccles, Orlando Holley-Sotomi and Owain Harris-Allan have taken the total of Welsh boxers guaranteed Commonwealth Games medals to four after a busy afternoon schedule of quarter-finals in Glasgow.

They join fellow Welsh boxer Connor Williams in the semi-finals. Losing boxing semi-finalists are given bronze medals.

Holley-Sotomi was the most impressive performer with a devastating first-round knockout of Lesotho's Refiloe Thai in the men's 70kg quarter-final.

Thai was caught with a brutal right-hand punch before Holley-Sotomi followed up with a left hook.

Thai was left pole-axed on the floor and received medical treatment before being helped to his feet. Holley-Sotomi did not initially celebrate as he was concerned for his opponent.

Eccles will collect a third Games medal after stopping Samukelisiwe Sinothile Ncube in the second round of the women's 70kg.

Eccles, who was the Team Wales flagbearer at the opening ceremony, is boxing in her last Games, having won silver in Australia in 2018 and gold in Birmingham four years later.

Harris-Allan, who claimed bronze four years ago, won the battle of the home nations against Scotland's Nicholas Devlin in the men's 60kg.

There were two disappointments as Daniel Pitt lost to Australia's Paul Trainor in the men's 80kg.

Niamh Brookes has also missed out on a medal after being defeated by Canada's Amber-Jane Wall in the women's 51kg quarter-final.

Brookes, 24, forced two standing counts to dominate the opening round but then faded.

Wall bounced back to force one count in the second and two in the third to claim victory.

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Welsh duo Funmi Oduwaiye and Bree Cronin won silver and bronze in the women's F42-44/F61-64 discus final in Glasgow.

Oduwaiye, 23, took the lead with an opening throw of 38.52 metres, a Commonwealth Games record for the F44 category.

Cronin lay in second after her opening throw of 34.88m, before improving to a season's best of 36.00m.

However, the gold was won by defending champion Nigeria's Goodness Nwachuku, who threw a world record for the F42 category with a throw of 39.66m with her final throw.

F42 and F44 scores in World Para Athletics multi-class events are calculated using the Raza Points System, a mathematical formula based on a Gompertz function that converts an athlete's physical distance or height (in metres) into a standardised point score.

Nwachuku's disability level saw her distance have a greater point score than that of Oduwaiye.

The pair, who train together in Cardiff under coach Josh Clark, finished fourth and fifth at the World Para Athletics Championships in India in 2025.

Oduwaiye adds to the bronze she won in F44 shot put at the World Para Athletics Championships in 2025.

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Amy Williams continued her positive start in the women's singles with a 2-0 victory over South African Bridget Herselman.

She delivered an assured performance against a difficult opponent winning 6-3, 6-3.

Williams sits top of her group and next faces Zambia's Mildred Mkandawire on Thursday night.

In the men's pairs Daniel Salmon and Ross Owen suffered their first loss of the campaign in a tight match against Maltese duo Troy Lorimer and Shaun Parnis.

Wales won the opening set 8-3, thanks in large part to scoring five shots in the first end.

But Malta clinched a cagey second-set 4-2, forcing and then winning the decisive one-end tie-break.

Salmon and Owen next play Guernsey at 11:20 BST on Thursday.